Lon Nol person
also: Long Nol, General Lund, Lon Null, Long Null, Lone Knoll
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Claims (5)
Richard Nixon funded
Lon Nol book_quoted
“Oil Exploration Company, also referred to in this chapter. Now, Mitsu was also one of those companies that date back to World War II that was involved in the slave labor of U.S. service people. By the oldest of these, gas cell agreements nu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 6:26
Lon Nol overthrew
Norodom Sihanouk book_quoted
“Lon Null's coup of March 1970, which paved the way for the American and South Vietnamese invasion, was only the ultimate and most visible stage of a shift of power that had begun three years before. This was due to, quote, pressures which w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 9:48
Norodom Sihanouk appointed
Lon Nol book_quoted
“Shanunak shifted to be more aligned with the U.S., received Chester Bowles, B-O-W-L-E-S, in January 1968, and we covered him when we covered Cambodia in our world tour, and began increasingly to crack down on the Khmer Rouge and NLF troops.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 11:47
CIA installed
Lon Nol host_asserted
“who they pretended to know nothing about, or the fact that he was installed by the CIA, may have some leanings they didn't necessarily agree with. So he was going to be groomed, which they knew exactly who he was because they planted him th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 42:50
Vietnam supplied_arms_to
Lon Nol host_asserted
“It also helps explain Indonesia's prompt offer to send arms to the newly installed CIA officer. Unquote. Psychological warfare experts in Indonesia arrived in Phnom Penh within days of the coup. Like they were already given a heads up that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 42:23
Mentions (16)
▶ 6:26
Oil Exploration Company, also referred to in this chapter. Now, Mitsu was also one of those companies that date back to World War II that was involved in the slave labor of U.S. service people. By the oldest of these, gas cell agreements nu…
▶ 9:48
Lon Null's coup of March 1970, which paved the way for the American and South Vietnamese invasion, was only the ultimate and most visible stage of a shift of power that had begun three years before. This was due to, quote, pressures which w…
▶ 11:47
Shanunak shifted to be more aligned with the U.S., received Chester Bowles, B-O-W-L-E-S, in January 1968, and we covered him when we covered Cambodia in our world tour, and began increasingly to crack down on the Khmer Rouge and NLF troops.…
▶ 21:34
By the end of 1970, when it appeared to many that the Lon Nol regime could not possibly survive without increased U.S. support, Union Oil of California had a concession for all of the offshore Cambodian oil and much of the offshore former F…
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1967, when Long Nol was briefly prime minister. But the indications are that the Khmer series retained their identity, their militant opposition to the prince, and their links to the U.S. CIA. In other words, it was all bullshit. Of these, …
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for a very long time. The more plausible explanation is they were given the weapons by the U.S. from people that they had already trained that were ethnically Vietnamese. So, a special relationship between Long Nol's army and the Khmer Syri…
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The power of the U.S. and Japanese oil interests with the new Suharto regime is likewise a matter of public record. The Long Null Coup of 1970, like the coups of 64 in Saigon and 64 in Laos, would have been counterproductive if they had not…
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Chuan plot was broken up in the spring of 1959 when the king dispatched his army chief of staff, a guy by the name of Long Nol, to arrest the commander. Long Nol killed him instead. As Dap Chuan's villa, Khmer authorities found two South Vi…
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Nixon nonetheless forged ahead in Cambodia because, you know, what's the big deal? It's just a dead body. The apparent willingness of the U.S. to act encouraged those Khmer who opposed the king's neutrality. This was especially true for Pri…
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So in March 1970, when the king was abroad, Long Nol launched a coup and overthrew the chief of state and plunged Cambodia into the Indochina War. The extent of American complicity in the coup has long been disputed. But what is not dispute…
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about the coup, there is no doubt that the Khmer Siri owed their status to the CIA. Sources range from the king to Long Nol's own army commanders who agreed that without the funding of the CIA, these are the guys that actually put the coup …
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Khmer Syri in Vietnam were openly recruited by CIA Mike forces. Most particularly through the 1969, there was a wave of desertions from the Khmer Syri in Thailand with entire units going over to the Cambodians. 200 in January, 300 in May, t…
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Long Nol incorporated some of these Khmer series into the National Police and others in the Phnom Penh garrison. As soon as he launched the coup, Long Nol appealed to the Americans for assistance. Within two weeks, there was 1,800 Mike Forc…
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During the same period, the Khmer Syri leader, Sung Nak Thang, also met with Lone Knoll, a fact confirmed by the SecDef Marvin Laird. According to this contact, William Colby of the CIA told a journalist, William Shawcross, that Lone Knoll …
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The talking points that Kissinger prepared when the intelligence board group returned indicated that the White House was interested. Nixon, aside from Vietnam, should ask whether Long Nol really commanded or if he reflected the confidence o…
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where the presidential advisory board had met with Suharto and his intelligence chief, Kissinger wanted Nixon to ask, quote, on Cambodia, did he, Suharto, emphasize the importance of Indonesia's maintaining its appearance of neutrality? Or …